11 September 2008

More than Just your Money's Worth

My Letter to Bishop Finn

contributed by Kay Goodnow

A company has no limbic structure predisposing
it to recognize its own as intrinsically valuable. People who extend
fidelity and fealty to a corporate entity - legally a person and
biologically a phantom - have been duped into a perilously unilateral
contract.
— Lewis, Amini and Lannon, A General Theory of Love, p215, 2000

Dear Bishop Finn:

Please know that you have made my life much easier.

My education in understanding the church is complete.

I understand that victims are business deals.

I understand that bishops are corporate executives in an institutional church.

I understand that the institutional church is not a church.

I understand that the institutional church has no God other than money.

I understand that the institutional church has policies and procedures.

I understand that the policies and procedure are more important than people.

As a victim (business deal) I understand that the policy
and procedures used against me as a business deal means that Bishop
O’Hara, the corporate executive of the institutional church in the
corporate archdiocese of Kansas City / St Joseph in 1954, was doing his
job when he transferred a priest who made a “mistake.”

I understand that the priest who made a mistake [that is, seduced me when I was a child] made other mistakes.

I understand that the value of the life of a child is
significantly unimportant as respects the monetary values of the
corporate institution known as the church.

I understand that the most important interest of the corporate
institution is to ban abortion because doing so might prevent other
business deals.

I understand that social justice, women’s rights,
discrimination and truth are political terms that are not relevant to
the corporate institution.

I understand that those Catholics who are interested in moving
the corporate institution to parallel the message brought by Christ are
to be silenced and or fired by the corporation.

I understand that “Freedom of Religion” does not mean “Freedom FROM Religion.”

I understand that politics are ploys utilized by the corporate
institution to enhance benefits paid as “perks” to its stockholders.

I understand that the officers and shareholders have profited
financially by removing a god that they have carefully crafted for
centuries.

I understand that from pulpits all over the corporate
institution known as the Diocese of Kansas City /St. Joseph we business
deals were labeled liars in order to protect the value of the
corporation.

I understand that your promise to defrock “mistakes” has been withdrawn due to the age and health of those “mistakes.”

I understand why you chose to ignore the business deals from
the corporate institutional diocese of Cheyenne, Wyoming, as it would
not be proper policy.

I understand that your corporate promise to apologize to KC
business deals in person was a promise you had no intention of keeping.

I understand that you have now said that you will write a
letter of apology, on behalf of the corporate institution, to any
business deal who ASKS (begs) for an apology and explain corporate
mistakes. I will apologize to my entire family for considering that
proposal. I am an “old business deal.”
Thank you but no, I am not interested in duplicity at this time.

I will always remember you as one of the corporate officers who could have made a difference.
You chose NOT to make the difference so needed to salvage a bleeding church.

And so, with pleasure, I ban you from my world.

In Kay Goodnow's opinion, Bishop Finn "finked out" on the non-monetary commitments of the Settlement Agreement
between the Diocese of Kansas City / St. Joseph and the victims of
sexual abuse perpetrated by diocesan clergy. In this letter she
expresses her anger.

Apparently, she had hoped that
representatives of the Church would follow up the money settlement by
dealing with the victims face-to-face, soul-to-soul, even though doing
so would cost them the personal sacrifice of experiencing the victims'
pain and resentment.

Here she expresses her disillusionment
over the Church behaving like a corporation, rather than like the
earthly manifestation of the Kingdom of God. She is saying to the
Church, "God calls you to be worth more than just your money."

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